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Long Time Passing
Outspoken individualist Kathy is out of step with most girls at her Oregon high school. What's Kathy doing stuck in her small town when so much is happening in the world--Vietnam protests, civil rights battles, free love, kids running away to be hippies in Haight-Ashbury? She may be stuck, but she's determined to start living her real life now, and to find her one true talent and her true love.
208 pages, Hardcover
First published September 8, 1997
About the author
Linda Crew
14 books31 followersMy early books were for young readers, and perhaps my best-known is my first, Children of the River. Set against the backdrop of the Cambodian refugee crisis of 1979, it’s still used in schools and English-as-a-second-language classes across the country twenty-seven years since publication. My two most recent—Brides of Eden: a True Story Imagined and A Heart for Any Fate: Westward to Oregon 1845—were published as cross-over titles, and I suspect have been read by more adults than teenagers.
With my new book, I have had to take a completely different turn. When I inadvertently became addicted to both Oxycodone and Xanax after undergoing total knee replacement surgery, there was suddenly no material more compelling to me than my own survival and healing. And when I realized the extent to which the problem of addiction to prescription drugs was affecting people all across the nation, I knew I needed to speak up and be at least one of the people telling this story. If the sharing of my pharmaceutically-induced trainwreck can comfort somebody else or, even better, help save them from heading down this horrible path in the first place, it will help me feel that perhaps some good can come of my past four years.
With my new book, I have had to take a completely different turn. When I inadvertently became addicted to both Oxycodone and Xanax after undergoing total knee replacement surgery, there was suddenly no material more compelling to me than my own survival and healing. And when I realized the extent to which the problem of addiction to prescription drugs was affecting people all across the nation, I knew I needed to speak up and be at least one of the people telling this story. If the sharing of my pharmaceutically-induced trainwreck can comfort somebody else or, even better, help save them from heading down this horrible path in the first place, it will help me feel that perhaps some good can come of my past four years.
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July 11, 2026
Kathy is not a Sosh. That becomes clear to her the day she fails to be elected to the rally squad and feels . . . relief.
This leads to the prompt purging of uncomfortable clothes, unwanted activities, and untenable aspirations in exchange for the pursuit of finding herself. A folk song here, a splash of paint there, another broken dream—only this time one that means something. She finds her own home amidst the “strange” kids in the drama department and earns a part playing opposite local student activist, James Holderread.
The year is 1966. The country is at war--even with itself. And being herself is perhaps the most difficult thing Kathy will ever pursue.
Linda Crew is one of my favorite authors. I fell in love with Children of the River—an award-winning book about a Cambodian refugee—when it was published in paperback in the early 90s. An Oregon author, her books also traverse the tragedy of the Tillamook Burn, the little-known history of the Brides of Eden cult, and the Oregon Trail. But she also wrote a couple earlier books and this: a simple, sweet love story set in the 1960s, which I had never read. Today (and it only took me today) I had the chance to rectify that lapse. Kathy is very much a teenager. Her personality and many of her personal dynamics with family and friends could take place in any era. But she does not live in just any era.
This leads to the prompt purging of uncomfortable clothes, unwanted activities, and untenable aspirations in exchange for the pursuit of finding herself. A folk song here, a splash of paint there, another broken dream—only this time one that means something. She finds her own home amidst the “strange” kids in the drama department and earns a part playing opposite local student activist, James Holderread.
The year is 1966. The country is at war--even with itself. And being herself is perhaps the most difficult thing Kathy will ever pursue.
Linda Crew is one of my favorite authors. I fell in love with Children of the River—an award-winning book about a Cambodian refugee—when it was published in paperback in the early 90s. An Oregon author, her books also traverse the tragedy of the Tillamook Burn, the little-known history of the Brides of Eden cult, and the Oregon Trail. But she also wrote a couple earlier books and this: a simple, sweet love story set in the 1960s, which I had never read. Today (and it only took me today) I had the chance to rectify that lapse. Kathy is very much a teenager. Her personality and many of her personal dynamics with family and friends could take place in any era. But she does not live in just any era.
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